COSIA’s Land Environmental Priority Area (EPA) is focused on reducing the footprint intensity and impact of oil sands mining and in situ (in place) operations on the land and wildlife of northern Alberta.

Land

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Water

COSIA’s Water Environment Priority Area (EPA) aims to reduce water use and increase water recycling rates at oil sands mining and in situ operations to become world leaders in water management, producing Canadian energy with no adverse impact on water.

Water

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Tailings

COSIA’s Tailings Environmental Priority Area (EPA) is focused on improving the management of oil sands tailings. Tailings are the sand, silt, clay and water found naturally in oil sands that remain following the mining and bitumen extraction process.

The Land Environmental Priority Area has identified the below COSIA Challenges to help mobilize the minds and resources of external stakeholders and global solutions providers and allow it to achieve its Aspiration to ‘be world leaders in land management, restoring the land and preserving biodiversity of plants and animals’.

Land

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Water

COSIA’s Water Environment Priority Area (EPA) aims to reduce water use and increase water recycling rates at oil sands mining and in situ operations to become world leaders in water management, producing Canadian energy with no adverse impact on water.

Water

/initiatives/tailings#challenges

Tailings

The Tailings Environmental Priority Area has identified the below COSIA Challenges to help mobilize the minds and resources of external stakeholders and global solutions providers and allow it to achieve its Aspiration to ‘transform tailings from waste into a resource that speeds land and water reclamation’.

Did you know that it’s possible to turn CO2 into shoes? Or bricks? Or other usable products?

We know that CO2 emissions contribute to climate change. If we can find ways to recycle the carbon from those emissions into useful products, we can significantly reduce CO2 emissions from our oil sands operations. Although, we’re constantly improving when it comes to reducing our CO2 emissions, we want to keep getting better.

The US$20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE challenges the world to reimagine what we can do with CO2 emissions by incentivizing and accelerating the development of technologies that convert CO2 into valuable products. These technologies have the potential to transform how the world approaches CO2 mitigation, and reduce the cost of managing CO2.